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Meta Secures Matt Deitke With $250 Million Deal as Zuckerberg’s Recruitment Raids Draw Rebuffs

That blockbuster hire follows Mark Zuckerberg’s personal appeals after rival startups spurned multi-billion-dollar offers for their lead researchers.

Overview

  • Meta has officially onboarded AI researcher Matt Deitke to its Superintelligence Lab on a $250 million compensation package secured by Zuckerberg’s personal intervention.
  • The campaign included a $1.5 billion offer to Andrew Tulloch and a $1 billion bid to acquire Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, both of which were rejected.
  • Zuckerberg’s team has reached out to more than 100 OpenAI employees this summer, resulting in at least ten new hires for Meta’s advanced AI initiatives.
  • Meta spokesperson Andy Stone has denied attempting to acquire Thinking Machines Lab and called publicized offer figures “inaccurate and ridiculous.”
  • The moves underscore Meta’s strategy to push industry pay norms higher as it races to develop artificial general intelligence at its newly launched Superintelligence Lab.